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| 2024-01-11 | |||
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Dmitry Taratorin [REGNUM] Donald Trump has threatened Joe Biden with criminal charges when he becomes president if former heads of state do not have real immunity from prosecution.
However, Trump’s problems don’t end there. He faces a total of 91 charges across four criminal cases. Together they carry a sentence of 700 years in prison. Discussing Trump's presidential prospects with an informed Western conservative, I heard: "They'd rather kill him." Where does “they” have this horror before Trump’s return to the White House? Yes, he promised in his first term to “drain the swamp,” that is, to undermine the power of the American political elite, but he already failed to do this once. Apparently, the “swamp” is aware that he has drawn conclusions. And now he is preparing for a serious blow. But the threat hangs not only over the “swamp”, but also over the “Cathedral”. And if it only shakes, this could be the beginning of the collapse of the entire left-liberal hegemony on a global scale. No, of course, we are not talking about some anti-church plans of Trump and his supporters. The term “Cathedral” denotes the “priests” of the left-liberal “religion”, guardians and fierce defenders of its dogmas, mercilessly persecuting all dissenters, labeling them marginal, and indiscriminately classifying their ideas as anti-human. This concept was invented about a decade and a half ago by IT specialist and popular blogger Curtis Yarvin, who wrote under the pseudonym Mencius Moldbug. The “Cathedral” is a network of journalists, professors, experts and politicians permeating the entire Western society who defend their “faith” as the only acceptable worldview. What made the same Yarvin declare war on him? The blatant ineffectiveness of the system that was created on the basis of the dogmas of the “Cathedral”, the obvious degradation of the ruling elite under the influence of its ideas, and simply its creeping totalitarianism. These ideas were supported by the nonconformist philosopher Nick Land, who became the second cult figure of the new movement, which was soon dubbed neoreaction (or NRx for short). But if the matter were limited to a few network intellectuals, this phenomenon could be neglected. However, the impulse itself came from more serious circles. Nick Land himself, speaking about the milestones in the formation of the movement, notes: “One of the stages was a discussion in April 2009, organized at Cato Unbound among libertarian thinkers (including Patrick Friedman and Peter Thiel), in which disillusionment with the direction and possibilities of democratic politics was expressed with unusual directness. Thiel summed up this trend succinctly: “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” It is quite typical that Thiel is not only one of the most successful investors in the United States, but also a person close to Trump. Meanwhile, Land gives the new mentality another definition: “The subterranean current which promotes such an anti-politics is a recognizably Hobbesian serial 'dark enlightenment', initially devoid of any Rousseauian enthusiasm for popular expression.” What are we talking about here? And nothing less than the fact that neoreactionaries (as well as their predecessors of the 18th century) see the root of evil in enlightenment philosophers such as Voltaire, Diderot, the preacher of the natural innocence of man Jean-Jacques Rousseau and, of course, their joint brainchild - the French Revolution with its slogan “liberty, equality and fraternity”. That is, no less than their activities are aimed at undermining everything that for the “Council” is an unquestionable axiom. But why are they neo-reactionaries, and not reactionaries without any modernizing prefixes? Because Curtis Yarvin describes his logic like this: “An absolute hereditary monarch has no interest in using an ineffective bureaucracy. Because he wants his nation to prosper, he is likely to adopt the economic and social system that appears to promote the prosperity of nations: libertarian capitalism. So we come full circle, a sort of layer cake—libertarianism, then absolute monarchy, then more libertarianism.” This seems completely crazy - American monarchists! This is in a country that was born precisely from the absolute rejection of the British monarchy. But here the contradiction is only at first glance. It is not for nothing that Yarvin begins with libertarianism and ends with it. No wonder Peter Thiel says that democracy can no longer provide freedom. They simply discovered that under the guise of “democracy” the “Council” established its absolute dictatorship. Over the course of a decade and a half, the NRx movement has evolved rapidly. And today it breaks down into a number of directions that see their goals very differently. Nick Land himself describes the situation as follows: “Since everyone agrees that the right can never agree with each other on anything,
But it is precisely this heterogeneity of NRx (from radical Catholic theonomists to total nihilists like Land himself) that is not a weakness, but a strength of the movement. It exists as a network community that is fighting for the minds of intellectuals with the network system of the “Cathedral”. And quite unsuccessfully. After all, until recently, being an intellectual in the West almost automatically meant being leftist. What awaits America? Neoreactionaries crown Trump emperor? In fact, they cannot be said to be his supporters at all. If only because of the mentioned diversity of their platforms. The point is different. And the threat to the “Cathedral” lies elsewhere. Trump, “draining the Washington swamp,” will inevitably undermine the power of this network structure. Otherwise, he simply won’t be able to resist. After all, it is the members of the “Cathedral” who tirelessly attack him. This means that his victory promises the United States an exciting and completely unpredictable future. Up to the potential transformation into the “United Kingdoms of America”. This is exactly what strange blogger Mencius Moldbug likes. | |||
| Posted by:badanov |
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| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2024-01-11 14:16 |
| #1 Bring it on. Change is good. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-11 08:04 |